Committee to Protect Journalists - Irelandtag:cpj.org,2008-09-16://12009-04-06T21:51:53ZMovable Type Pro 6.0.2Attacks on the Press 2007: Europe and Central Asia Snapshotstag:cpj.org,2008://1.67462008-02-05T16:24:50Z2009-04-06T21:51:53ZAttacks and developments throughout the region...Committee to Protect JournalistsAttacks and developments throughout the region]]>
Journalist arrested in Ireland; two others investigated
tag:216.139.245.96,2007://1.62162007-03-05T17:00:00Z2007-03-05T17:00:00ZNew York, March 5, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of freelance reporter Mick McCaffrey and the criminal investigation of Irish Times journalists Geraldine Kennedy and Colm Keena for allegedly publishing private information. Police investigated McCaffrey for several months after the independent Dublin-based Evening Herald daily published his...Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, March 5, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of freelance reporter Mick McCaffrey and the criminal investigation of Irish Times journalists Geraldine Kennedy and Colm Keena for allegedly publishing private information.

Police investigated McCaffrey for several months after the independent Dublin-based Evening Herald daily published his August 2006 article about police mishandling of a 1997 murder case that jailed an innocent man. In his article, McCaffrey cited an internal probe into the case that said the suspect was highly suggestible and picking up details of the murder from the detectives, the Associated Press reported.
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Attacks on the Press 2001: Europe & Central Asiatag:216.139.245.96,2002://1.73792002-03-26T17:11:50Z2009-04-15T18:11:18ZThe exhilarating prospect of broad press freedoms that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union a decade ago has faded dramatically in much of the post-communist world. A considerable decline in press freedom conditions in Russia during the last year, along with the stranglehold authoritarian leaders have imposed on media...Alex LupisThe exhilarating prospect of broad press freedoms that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union a decade ago has faded dramatically in much of the post-communist world. A considerable decline in press freedom conditions in Russia during the last year, along with the stranglehold authoritarian leaders have imposed on media in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, has put journalists on the defensive across the region.
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Attacks on the Press 2001: United Kingdomtag:216.139.245.96,2002://1.73692002-03-26T17:00:45Z2009-04-15T20:01:24ZPress freedom is generally respected in the United Kingdom, and CPJ does not routinely monitor conditions in the country. However, CPJ was extremely alarmed by the September 28 murder of investigative reporter Martin O'Hagan, the first working journalist to be killed in Northern Ireland since the outbreak of violence more...Committee to Protect Journalists
Press freedom is generally respected in the United Kingdom, and CPJ does not routinely monitor conditions in the country. However, CPJ was extremely alarmed by the September 28 murder of investigative reporter Martin O'Hagan, the first working journalist to be killed in Northern Ireland since the outbreak of violence more than three decades ago. O'Hagan was shot dead outside his home in the town of Lurgan on September 28.
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER SHOT DEAD IN NORTHERN IRELAND
tag:216.139.245.96,2001://1.27542001-10-01T16:00:00Z2001-10-01T16:00:00ZNew York, October 1, 2001—Martin O'Hagan, a 51-year-old investigative journalist with the Dublin newspaper Sunday World, was shot dead outside his home in the Northern Irish town of Lurgan late Friday, CPJ has confirmed. O'Hagan was shot several times from a passing car while walking home from a pub with...Committee to Protect JournalistsNew York, October 1, 2001—Martin O'Hagan, a 51-year-old investigative journalist with the Dublin newspaper Sunday World, was shot dead outside his home in the Northern Irish town of Lurgan late Friday, CPJ has confirmed.

O'Hagan was shot several times from a passing car while walking home from a pub with his wife, who was not hurt in the attack.

The vehicle in question was found on fire not far from the crime scene.
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NORTHERN IRISH JOURNALIST WINS APPEALtag:216.139.245.96,1999://1.23021999-10-27T04:00:00Z1999-10-27T04:00:00ZNew York, October 27, 1999 -- A Northern Irish journalist does not have to hand over his notes on the 1989 murder of a Belfast lawyer, the province's senior judge ruled today. Ed Moloney, the Northern Ireland editor of the Dublin-based Sunday Tribune, had faced up to five years in...Committee to Protect JournalistsNew York, October 27, 1999 -- A Northern Irish journalist does not have to hand over his notes on the 1989 murder of a Belfast lawyer, the province's senior judge ruled today.

Ed Moloney, the Northern Ireland editor of the Dublin-based Sunday Tribune, had faced up to five years in jail and unlimited fines for refusing to comply with an earlier court order to hand over his notes to British authorities.
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